Hey Leslie. What kind of pace did you hold on the 100s? Did you swim the set straight through without breaks in between the interval changes?

Well, I was sort of sleep walking through it.

I do this type of set very infrequently, and only if I'm swimming inadvertently on freestyle night. I would have to use fins to get through it all. My fast teammates would swim straight through without any rest between the interval changes.

I wasn't familiar with stretchcord swimming either. It's just a belt you put around your waist, attached to a length of 3/4" surgical tubing, attached to a starting block.

As you swim the length the tubing stretches and makes swimming progressively harder. I barely made the opposite wall and it took about 25sec- the last 10 yards took about 15sec. He says the team does this prior to meets- sort of like swinging two bats in baseball. And the swim back to the wall is a lot of fun.